In the afternoon a game of baseball was played in his honor; and never did his great-grandfather watch more eagerly for victory over the pirates than did this descendant watch that the game might be won by the Campobello boys. At evening, in the little English Church, where the bishop blessed the people and told of Lady Owen's deeds of mercy, the boy bent his head over the narrow bookrest, where were holes for the candles which, in his grandfather's day, each parishioner brought along to light the darkness at the hours of service.
The next day the people gathered again at the wharf. The midshipman was a new old friend by this time.
Once more the brass-piece sounded farewell as he crossed the bay. It had been the playmate of his boyhood, his imaginary navy, his cavalry horse, his personal friend. By its side, he had never wanted to rest on chairs or sofas. Once more he turned to look at it as he went down the steps to the water's edge, and waved adieu to those who loved him for his mother's sake, with a fondness and pride, and a sense of personal ownership, unknown in "the States," where ancestry counts for but little.
The old cannon still stands upright in Mr. Batson's store. No one would ever steal it again. No one can ever buy it away. From father to child it will descend, to tell of the English-American feudalism of a hundred years ago, and of the happy, bright boy, who found his father's home turned into a modern hotel.
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A PAN-REPUBLIC CONGRESS.
NEW ideas, or the larger applications of old work silently for a while, and then startle us with a sudden assurance of their possibility. We have not yet become reconciled to the idea that socially and politically nothing is permanent. We have also to be confident that movement of this sort is, in the course of each century, The Darwinian idea has permeated physical science; it is slowly permeating social science, that the eyes of
ones,
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progress.
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evolution are in its forehead. may dread change; republicanism need have no fear. Whatever is before us, in spite of blunders, is betterment. 'The last century closed up at the great Clearing House of popular opinion; the present opened with the application of those digested opinions to government. __Jefferson, in 1800, completed the greatest revolution the world has ever known. The quick result has been half a world in which freedom of thought and of labor
Monarchy
